Grisel
#12,352 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Grisel has been given to 1,678 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #12,352 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 204 recorded.
Babies named Grisel, 2025
1 in 474,000
Grisel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Grisel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,352
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Grisel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grisel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Grisels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Grisel was born before 1984 — so the typical Grisel is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 29.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,671
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (486).
Is Grisel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +276
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,595
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −120
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.88×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 3.4%
- Peak was 1984 (204)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Grisel
Grisel is not the most common spelling — Ariel is, with 68.6% against Grisel's 1.5%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Grisel is used
Across 1910–2025, Grisel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 66,258 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 33,333
- 2California1 in 50,000
- 3Illinois1 in 100,000
- 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 5Texas1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Massachusetts1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Grisel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Grisel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Grisel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Grisel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.